Who is Suman Bery, Niti Aayog’s new vice chairman?
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The Centre has appointed economist Suman Bery as Niti Aayog’s vice chairman after Rajiv Kumar abruptly stepped down from the post on Friday.
The Centre has appointed economist Suman Bery as Niti Aayog’s vice chairman after Rajiv Kumar stepped down from the post on Friday, April 22. Kumar had taken over at India’s policy think tank five years ago.
The Ministry of Personnel in a statement said that the appointments committee of the cabinet had accepted the resignation of Rajiv Kumar and appointed Suman Bery as the full-time member of the Niti Aayog, and later as the vice chairperson from May 1.
Suman Bery, who succeeds Rajiv Kumar, was the director-general of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), one of the country's leading independent policy research institutions, for 10 years from 2001 to 2011.
A senior visiting fellow at the Delhi-headquartered Centre for Policy Research, Suman Bery is a Global Fellow in the Asia program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He is a non-resident Fellow of Bruegel, an economic policy research institution located in Brussels.
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Bery also served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, India’s Statistical Commission and of the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy.
From early 2012 till mid-2016 Suman Bery was Chief Economist of Shell International, based in The Hague, The Netherlands and advised the board and management of Royal Dutch Shell on global economic and political developments. He also was part of the senior leadership of Shell’s global scenarios group. While at Shell, he led a collaborative project with Indian think tanks to apply scenario modelling to India’s energy sector.
